Ann Slote
Projection & Video Designer for Live Performance
Video & Projection Designselected projects
Mummy, Daddy, and Other Issues
Video Designer · Neue Bühne Friedrichshain
Fancy Dancer
Co-Projection Designer · Seattle Rep
Songs of Absence
Video Designer · Gasteig München Saal X
'Til Somebody Bombs You
Video Design
Peter Komma Der
Video Design · Slaughterhouse Moabit, Berlin
Mahabharata
Associate Video Designer · WhyNot Theatre · Shaw Festival 2023
Quinn XCII Summer Tour
Creative Producer · US Tour
Joywave's Cleanse Tour
Production Designer · US Tour
MisterWives' Resilient Little Tour
Production Designer · US Tour
On the Brink
Animator · 2020
Being a Satellite
Animator · FRAY Dev
Emerging Voices
Associate Projection Designer · Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
What You Will (Twelfth Night)
Lighting & Projection Design · A Noise Within, Pasadena
Lighting Designselected projects
Best Funeral Ever (My Russian Funeral)
Lighting Design · Natasha Borenko & co
What You Will (Twelfth Night)
Lighting & Projection Design · The Actors Company
Unseen
Lighting & Projection Design · UCLA
The Bear
Co-Director & Scenic Design · Highways Performance Space
The Secrets of My Skincare Routine
Lighting Design · Bastette Group
Decode/Explode
Lighting Design · New Shoes
H0lie Luna
Lighting Design · Highways Performance Space
Studio & Process
MisterWives’ Resilient Little Tour
Production design · concept thumbnails
Closer
Play by Patrick Marber · rough 3-scene storyboard
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Ann
Slote
video & projection designer · lighting designer
Hi! I'm Ann — a video, projection, and lighting designer based between Berlin and the Bay Area.

I work in concerts, theatre, and live events. Recent projects include video design for Quinn XCII, MisterWives, and Joywave's US tours, associate projection design on Mahabharata at the Shaw Festival, and theatre work with companies in Berlin and Los Angeles.
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video & projection
Quinn XCII Summer Festival Tour
Creative Producer
US Tour
2022
A summer festival run across the US supporting Quinn XCII's 2022 tour. The show content spanned song-specific visuals and transitional pieces designed to flex across outdoor festival configurations.
Creative Producer: Ann Slote
Animators: Ann Slote, Benedict Conran, Luz Gaitan, Jordan Hamilton, Le Urvashi
video & projection
MisterWives' Resilient Little Tour
Production Designer
US Tour
2021
MisterWives' Resilient Little Tour, December 2021. A full production design — stage environment and video content built together as one visual world, made to feel personal to the band and the record.
Stage Design: Ann Slote
Media Content: Ann Slote & Matty Vogel
Lighting Design: Brian Lareau
Production Manager: Noah Almekinder
Set Construction: Will Hehir
Photos: Sarah Duffy Bowler
video & projection
Joywave's Cleanse Tour
Production Designer
US Tour
2022
Joywave's Cleanse Tour, March 2022. The show was built around a sawn-off Corvette on stage — video content placed it inside a vaporwave highway and car wash world, creating something both absurd and visually cohesive.
Media Design: Ann Slote
Lighting Design: Richard Fong
Photos: Ben Zucker
video & projection
Mahabharata
Associate Video Designer
WhyNot Theatre · Shaw Festival 2023
2023
Why Not Theatre's epic adaptation of the Mahabharata, directed by Ravi Jain, at the Shaw Festival 2023. A large-scale production spanning multiple performance spaces, with projection design by Hana S. Kim.
Video Design: Hana S. Kim
Associate Video Designer: Ann Slote
Assistant Video Designer: Cameron Fraser
Director: Ravi Jain
Set Design: Lorenzo Savoini
Lighting: Kevin Lamotte
Music: John Gzowski & Suba Sankaran
Photos: Michael Cooper
video & projection
Mummy, Daddy, and Other Issues
Video Designer
Neue Bühne Friedrichshain
2023
Mummy, Daddy, and Other Issues at Neue Bühne Friedrichshain, Berlin. A bilingual performance piece exploring cultural identity through the perspective of Núria Frías Corrius, with live music and original video content woven throughout.
Video Design: Ann Slote
Dramaturgy & Performance: Núria Frías Corrius
Ton Design & Live Musik: Iñigo M. Malo
Choreographie: Carlos G. Corchia
Photo: Carla Louise Domènech
video & projection
Fancy Dancer
Co-Projection Designer
Seattle Rep, Leo K. Theater
2025
A world premiere solo show written by Larissa FastHorse and directed by Chay Yew, presented by Seattle Rep and Seattle Children's Theatre. September–November 2025, Leo K. Theater.
Co-Projection Design: Ann Slote & Caite Hevner
Written by: Larissa FastHorse
Directed by: Chay Yew
Presented by: Seattle Rep & Seattle Children's Theatre
video & projection
Songs of Absence
Video Designer
Gasteig München Saal X
2023
Songs of Absence, performed at Gasteig München Saal X, 2023. A dance-theatre work choreographed by Anna Konjetzky, with music by Sergej Maingardt and costume by Dimosthenis Klimenof.
Video Design: Ann Slote
Choreography: Anna Konjetzky
Lighting Design: Ramona Lehnert
Music: Sergej Maingardt
Costume: Dimosthenis Klimenof
lighting
Unseen
Lighting & Projection Designer
UCLA, Winter 2018
2018
Unseen, a play by Mona Mansour, produced at UCLA in winter 2018. Directed by Jean Carlo Yunén Aróstegui, the piece deals with displacement, visibility, and the lives of people rendered unseen by conflict.
Lighting & Projection Design: Ann Slote
Play by: Mona Mansour
Director: Jean Carlo Yunén Aróstegui
Scenic Design: Beibei Hu
Sound Design: Benedict Conran
lighting
What You Will (or Twelfth Night)
Lighting & Media Design · Co-producer
The Actors Company, West Hollywood
2019
What You Will is what happens when Shakespeare's Twelfth Night goes through the Nongenue machine — movement, classical text, and the contemporary realities of gender and sexuality in an ecstatic, heartbreaking deconstruction. Two productions: the original 2019 run at The Actors Company, West Hollywood, and a 2023 revival.
Lighting & Projection Design: Ann Slote
Director: Olivia Buntaine
Choreography: Marie Osterman
Scenic Design: Richard Fong
Written by Shakespeare
A Project Nongenue production
2019 · The Actors Company, West Hollywood
2020 workshop · A Noise Within, Pasadena
After a successful run at The Actors Company, the piece was deconstructed for a workshop at A Noise Within. Also see the video design —
video & projection
'Til Somebody Bombs You
Video Design
Video design for 'Til Somebody Bombs You. Music by Taylor Williams, Ronvé O'Daniel, and Daniel J. Watts.
Video Design: Ann Slote
Music: Taylor Williams, Ronvé O'Daniel & Daniel J. Watts
video & projection
Peter Komma Der
Video Design
Slaughterhouse Moabit, Berlin
Peter Komma Der, performed at Slaughterhouse Moabit, Berlin — a found space inside a former slaughterhouse. A site-specific work with music by Peter und die Attentaeter.
Video Design: Ann Slote
Music: Peter und die Attentaeter
video & projection
Emerging Voices
Associate Projection Designer
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
2020
Set against the backdrop of Paris and the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Versailles, Emerging Voices explores the importance of art song as a medium for understanding identity and forging connections during times of social and political change.
Projection Design: Hana Kim
Associate Projection Design & Animation: Ann Slote
video & projection
What You Will (Twelfth Night)
Lighting & Projection Design
A Noise Within, Pasadena
2020
A workshop production of What You Will at A Noise Within, Pasadena, 2020. This version of the piece added projection as a structural layer — content developed in direct dialogue with the movement and text, before the run was halted during tech due to Covid-19.
Video Design: Ann Slote
Director: Olivia Buntaine
Choreography: Marie Osterman
Scenic Design: Richard Fong
A Project Nongenue production
Also see the lighting design —
lighting
Best Funeral Ever (my russian funeral)
Lighting Designer
Ballhaus Ost, Berlin
Best Funeral Ever (my russian funeral) by Natasha Borenko at Ballhaus Ost, Berlin. A darkly comic performance piece about mortality, ritual, and the theatre of grief — part cabaret, part ceremony.
Light Design: Ann Slote
Direction, text & performance: Natasha Borenko
Dramaturgy, text & performance: Lidiia Golovanova
Artistic collaboration: Lena Neuburger
Stage design: Ksenia Peretrukhina
Sound & music: Ray Schneider / Discount
Costume design: Martha Lange, Stephanie Zurstegge
Production management: Kim Walz
Photography: Amelie Kahn-Ackermann
lighting
The Secrets of My Skincare Routine
Lighting Designer
Highways Performance Space
2018
The Secrets of My Skincare Routine, a work by The Bastette Group, Highways Performance Space, fall 2018. A dance piece that takes the language of beauty ritual as its material.
Lighting Design: Ann Slote
Choreography: The Bastette Group
lighting
Decode/Explode
Lighting Designer
Highways Performance Space
2018
Decode/Explode, presented as part of New Shoes Fest at Highways Performance Space, spring 2018.
Lighting Design: Ann Slote
New Shoes Fest, Highways, April 2018
lighting
H0lie Luna
Lighting Designer
Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica
2016
H0lie Luna, choreographed by Aurora Lagattuta, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, spring 2016.
Lighting Design: Ann Slote
Choreography: Aurora Lagattuta
lighting
The Bear (so close yet so far away)
Co-Director & Scenic Design
Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica
2018
We intertwined Chekhov's short play with poetic excerpts by Davia Schendel — writings on relationship and disconnection that adapted it for the modern woman. Flashbacks and puppetry portrayed Popova's abusive history with her deceased husband, exploring themes of acceptance, grief, and identity within borders.
Directed by: Ann Slote & Jennifer Gould
Set Design: Ann Slote
Lighting Design: Benedict Conran
Written by Chekhov, with excerpts by Davia Schendel
video & projection
Being a Satellite
Animator
FRAY Dev
2021
A short animation developed through FRAY Dev's mentorship program, 2021.
video & projection
On the Brink
Animator
2020
A short animation, 2020.
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